The biologically constructive nature of perception—unavoidable because of brain system crosstalk—makes lying a cinch for most of us. This awareness is in itself necessary to check our own utterances for exaggerations, distortions, fibs, and prevarications before they mature to blatant festering lies. Israel neither has nor needs such internal checkpoints. Lies come naturally, fluently, and voluminously to a society with the sociopathology of exceptionalist apartheid as its founding "principle". Expecting anything else is frustrating and naive. And with historical analysis comes the realization: ditto USA
I was the best liar when I was about 16yrs old I think because of insecurity.
I got caught out many times and became truthful..it was a good experience. I was free.
We all go through insecurity at one point or another BUT one would hope it goes away as we age, obviously this is NOT true of our leaders or the press.
Truth sets you free: maybe mainstream Journalists should try it.
What you perhaps suggest, Jenny, is that they're driven by insecurity (aka careerism), which also reflects an immaturity in values, not so unexpected against the backdrop of the consumerist ideology whose measure of life "success" is the accumulation of stuff. In that scenario, lying is almost de rigueur. I was lucky to have a father with a different value system; the few times I lied to him were psychological torture for me.
Spot on! They have chosen to judge their success in life by how much wealth they have accumulated. Living life by this idea will inevitably lead to a sick society, where humanity is viewed through the lens of monetary value.
I think it's more basic than even that, I could never help myself, but got tired of always having to go to confession (Catholic) and having to make guesstaments of how many hundreds of times I had lied in the last few weeks; so I decided that since I couldn't help but lie, then I'd only lie if it didn't advance my self interests to do; I think my best lie was that I had built a green house in the basement; I couldn't believe that they had believed such an outrageous lie; oh well.
What I most recall is being endlessly badgered by nuns, especially the young ones right out of the convent, who seemed perennially confused about their roles in our lives -- and their own.
I think my writing's been complimented; if so, thanks. I guess I'm grateful that my linguistic brain has not yet gone to rubbish as the number of neurons blips downward.
Latin? Only Americans who go to Catholic high schools. I took 3 years of that "dead language" (Caesar, Cicero and Virgil), which lives on in so many other languages and contexts. But my spoken Italian sounds close to native because when I was a piccolo bambino, my bilingual nonna mi parlava Italiano un po'. So I always explain to other struggling speakers how my experience screams for early childhood language expansion, human brains being linguistic sponges in early childhood. Molti anni piu tardi, Il mio cervello ha ricordato il ritmo e il suono della lingua. Many years later, my brain remembered the rythm and sounds of the language as it came from nonna's voice. The amazing brain that the US educational atrocity short-changes in so many ways. What a country!
By the way, I've got you by a year, turned 76 this year. I'm so old, I remember when the dead sea was only sick.
My brother took Latin in high school, which at the time was a prerequisite for pre-med.
I’d love to take a class in Latin because of the Latin origins of the names of the trees and plants I love. I know many of them but would like to expand my knowledge.
Well said. But raising of course the issue of reaching some agreement on what constitutes a true existential threat. Israel would no doubt argue that the WWII Holocaust (which as we know included Romany, some Catholics, the disabled of any derivation and other non-Jewish people) projects into the future some sort of perennial residue of existential threat to Jews -- in the twisted Zionist mindset. Thus, as you state so well, becoming normalized as the organizational principle of Zionist Israeli society.
"the issue of reaching some agreement on what constitutes a true existential threat."
Thank you. My practical hope is to restore this as perpetually-active piece of open public discourse, not MSM-filtered, for all warfare. Then we, my whole country (US), and the world, can better deduce who is rational and who is crazy.
The lie George, is your misuse of the word anti-semitic. You play a definition game with us and the world and pretend to yourself that what you say is "true", when any rational, decent moral person knows it isn't. Caitlin is right, honest perception, especially of oneself is the key to growth. Without it, there is no growth, only stultification and neurosis. We see this in the entire state of Israel, on a neurotic road to self-destruction, as Germany once was in the 1940s.
Jamenta, I think you misread me. Yes it should have been I quotation marks but I wasn’t expecting the interpretation. Btw I find myself in virtual synchrony with both you and Caitlyn.
In my past work as a psychotherapist, I always encouraged clients to see the difference between "A" problem and "THE" problem. A client might have "A" presenting problem of anxiety but it was soon apparent the "THE" problem was an abusive marriage.
The same idea can be applied to politics as in continued US support for Israel's genocide is "A" problem but "THE" problem is the collapse and control of the US government by the Zionist lobby and Tel Aviv. Even if some kind of 'ceasefire' happened in Gaza, easing "A" problem of genocide, "THE" problem of Zionist ownership and control of the US government will lead to genocide in the West Bank, Lebanon and eventually war with Iran.
Always peel back "A" problem and see "THE" problem beneath.
Or is it the other way around. Israel is the puppet of the US. I’m more inclined to believe that Israel does what the US wants and not the other way around. Either way, it’s clear they are one and the same.
Just look to the obsequious. ball-licking reception of the Congress for Netanyahu's 'State of the Union' speech. Even all but one or two of the 100 who boycotted the speech had nonetheless voted for every bill sending more funds, weapons and intel for the Israel ZioNazi government. Look at the funding the Zionist lobby pumps into the American faux electoral system. No, our government has fallen. We are occupied by one of the most evil forces the world has ever seen.
This has been happening for a long time though. In 1967 Israel attacked a US naval vessel, with no repercussions. It is believed that the US and Israel had agreed on Israel sinking the vessel to give reason for the US to go to war with the Middle East. They embarrassingly failed in the attack, with many Americans surviving the attack and living to tell the true story. The same thing is believed to be true about 9/11. It’s funny that most of the hijackers were Saudi, yet the US did nothing to Saudi Arabia, AIPAC exists so the money laundering can make it back to the politicians who OK’d the weapons sales to Israel, who buys our weapons with our own tax money. It’s convoluted, but they are definitely on the same team and have been for a long time.
I disagree, Israel has been using the US to aid in its extermination of Arabs. Even 9/11, there are those that believe Israel was behind it. I have no proof of this only theories and evidence I've seen on 9-11 truther sites. The US is Isreal's ATM. The US government has been infiltrated by zionists nutcases, including basically Bidens entire cabinet. We do the bidding of Israel, the zionists get their Arab blood and the Neocons get there war machine money.
elites use both 'states' to foster this discussion and the uncertainty so there's always 'a reasonable doubt' that either one is the 'arch-villain' manipulating his 'unwitting' accomplice. while the public is trying to find out who's the 'evil masterbrain', they continue their schemes and horrors unabated (while the public wonders if the tail is wagging the dog, they're too mesmerized to see the entire dog has rabies). i think there's a lot of lobby-groups thankful for aipac for being the lightning-rod, a role they willingly perform. there seems lots of lists of aipac donations to politicians, but not so much of the other lobby-groups (maybe there are none?). there seems lots of support for designating aipac foreign agents and thus preventing their lobbying, but far less for abolishing the lobbying and donating system altogether.
"That is why [Jungian] therapy labors greatly to find extra-ego referents such as somatic symptoms, behavioral patterns, and dreams which offer correctives to the blindness of the ego." #CreatingALife
Jenny: The ICC and indeed every international organization is to some extent corrupted by the Behemoth of the " New World Order ". I am beginning to think the only thing that can tear down the whole rotten structure may be the BRICS alliance. The government here has done a good job of making the few of us who resist virtually powerless and the rest entirely incapable of rational thought. AS individuals all I can say is never comply and never submit. As long as we have our personal dignity we are not lost.
Of course it's not getting talked about. The last thing our corrupt officials want is to allow any publicity for it. They know that allowing it to be widely publicized will only hasten their own demise.
There are mutterings that the BRICS countries are considering exiting from the UN. I cannot confirm this, conveying a suspicion passed on to me by a perceptive comrade.
The UN has worn itself out, with huge "help" from the US. So some other mechanism must be in store, and why not BRICS at this point. The key is not to have the US anywhere near the governance.
I find it is sometimes difficult to get people to even care about what is happening in the world. And it gets turned back on me too often. I am the angry one. I am the one causing stress by sending all those articles. I am a horrible person because I don't support Israel's "right" to defend itself. I am so grateful for articles such as Caitlins and also others that do see what is happening in Gaza and Ukraine. They help me to feel supported by others.
And watch the sheep cheer. MAGA types were all in favor of canceling freedom of speech and the press when the GWOT was in swing, then became civil libertarians when they figured out that the so-called "Patriot Act" could be used on then.
Now, yea, like the dog returneth to its vomit, they are cheering again. Dumb scrotes.
EDIT: to be fair, it ain't just MAGA. Watch how goodthink liberals cheered for the War On Iraq when it was popular, turned on it when it didn't perform as advertised, then became full-throated totalitarians, just as soon as Obama got elected.
I was talking about Israel with an acquaintance who accurately recites all the mainstream hasbara talking points.
He told me Hamas has rejected a ceasefire. When I told him I can show him that Israel has rejected at least 11 ceasefires he responded “I wouldn’t believe you even if you could show me.”
What do you do with someone who says that? Ultimately the truth is something very few people want to see….
"Israel [ United States Empire ] has continued its war on journalism ...", No!, on Muslim arabs, on Christian arabs, on arab who are not superstitious, on non-European brown people, and on all who do not accept jews are "God's Chosen People.*
"The more I live and learn the more convinced I am that everything ultimately comes down to seeing. ...", No!, "everything comes down to war or might, which is to say money.**
War or might, which is to say money, doesn't make right; war or might, which is to say money, makes what is.**
dennis hanna
*Israel is the United States.
The United States is Israel.
Israel:
God’s Chosen People
United States:
American Exceptionalism*
The Earth’s Last Best Hope**
The Indispensable Nation***
The One Indispensable Nation****
A settler-Colonial land.
The Promised Land,
Manifest Destiny is our stand.
A land with no people for
A people with no land.
Indian Territory(ies)
Palestinian Territory(ies)
Occupied Palestinian Territory(ies)
Illegally Occupied Palestinian Territory(ies)
Indian Reservations
Palestinian Reservations
“Area C”, Palestine?, you pray.
“Bantustans,” you say.
Apartheid is the only way.
No!, genocide is here to stay.
Why? Because election year or not Israel's supporters pay United States government representatives to obey.
Wait, all social and economic leaders in America and the "Western World" take Israel's supporters money, it's the only winning game to play.
United States Indians
Israel, PalestinIndians
Different names for the same thing, ethnic cleansing and Genocide.
The truth you can’t hide.
One and the same.
The Principle of Identity,
A difference only in name.
*The first reference to the concept by name, and possibly its origin, was by French writer Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835/1840 work, Democracy in America:
“The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people.”
**President Abraham Lincoln
Annual Message to Congress -- Concluding Remarks
Washington, D.C.
December 1, 1862
One month before signing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln sent a long message to Congress which was largely routine, but also proposed controversial measures such as voluntary colonization of slaves and compensated emancipation.
“... We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. ...”
***It is the threat of the use of force [against Iraq] and our line-up there that is going to put force behind the diplomacy. But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us.
Madeleinee K. Albright,
U.S. Secretary of State (1997–2001).
Stated on NBC's Today Show (February 19, 1998)
****"The United States is and will remain the one indispensable nation in the world. Now, sustaining our leadership, keeping America strong and secure means we have to use our power wisely," Obama said in his address to the American Legion in North Carolina. August 27, 2014 ( not the first or last time he uttered these words )
Please note, President Obama
clarified and specified “... the one indispensable nation ...”
The President, thus, closed the rhetorical door on any other nation being “indispensable.”
In meaning and use, “the,” definite article, acts as a function word to indicate that a following noun or noun equivalent is a “unique” or “a” particular member” of its class; i.e. “the” President as compared to “a” president.
President Obama, of course, knew this being “ivory league” educated at Columbia University (B.A.) and Harvard University (J.D.)
** “War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides,
460 B.C.E. – 400 B.C.E.
“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides is generally regarded as one of the first true historians. Like his predecessor Herodotus, known as "the father of history", Thucydides places a high value on eyewitness testimony and writes about events in which he probably took part.
He also assiduously consulted written documents and interviewed participants about the events that he recorded.
Unlike Herodotus, whose stories often teach that a hubrisinvites the wrath of the gods, Thucydides does not acknowledge divine intervention in human affairs.
"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only ask them to think”
WOW !!! What a coincidence, because someone apparently just tried to kill me this morning, by manipulating one of my medical devices while I was on an early morning walk. Apparently, because of a comment that I made on your blog about 12 hours ago. Most likely the comment that sent someone on a murderous warpath was the hateful statement that they made about Palestinians being rapists, and murderers; they might have added thieves as well. I checked them and chided them for their hate speech. So; so very right on, Caitlin, and may I also add concerning the explosive devices that Israel detonated the day, they; these people here, where I live in Chicago, where Netanyahu's X , and his daughter lives, who I've met, while she was dating my son; apparently tried to set me up with one of those explosive devices; for criticising Jewish hate speech of Palestinians, and; may I add that hardly a day goes by here in Chicago that someone at least tries, if not succeeds in killing a Palestinian, and the media, not even the local media reports on it. Almost understandable though as Benjamin's X heads the local public broadcasting network here in the city, and whenever she gets upset with me, she has one of the other stations here in town run some hate speech on me, in the hopes that some unhinged group will extract revenge. Happened in Indianapolis with Trump's hate speech towards Chinese people; the 3 teenagers killed a Korean instead. Mental health? Everyone in my family except for me and the one that they killed in a failed attempt to get to me, they hypnotized to make all efforts to end my life for them. Crimes against humanity, and my sister is still going around calling people Chink Lovers, and she doesn't give a damn about politics and never did, but that's the shit they do, and no doubt but that is what they did to the IDF, some people here wear those IDF hats, especially right down the hall from me. Beware the hateful heart Caitlin, the Zionist agenda has no boundaries.
But the truth is "Anti-semetic".
Perhaps a meditation on how that seeming lock can be picked so far apart, its deceit so exposed, that it no longer can be manipulated. Asserted.
Semitic.
Every Western government is a crime syndicate.
I'll go further
ALL STATES ARE
Yep.
What socialist states?
Are they democracies? Or are they perpetually run by vanguards, under the *banner* of democracy?
If socialism comes only from the barrel of a gun, it ain't worth shit.
All states are authoritarian.
The biologically constructive nature of perception—unavoidable because of brain system crosstalk—makes lying a cinch for most of us. This awareness is in itself necessary to check our own utterances for exaggerations, distortions, fibs, and prevarications before they mature to blatant festering lies. Israel neither has nor needs such internal checkpoints. Lies come naturally, fluently, and voluminously to a society with the sociopathology of exceptionalist apartheid as its founding "principle". Expecting anything else is frustrating and naive. And with historical analysis comes the realization: ditto USA
I love this comment Vin.
I was the best liar when I was about 16yrs old I think because of insecurity.
I got caught out many times and became truthful..it was a good experience. I was free.
We all go through insecurity at one point or another BUT one would hope it goes away as we age, obviously this is NOT true of our leaders or the press.
Truth sets you free: maybe mainstream Journalists should try it.
What you perhaps suggest, Jenny, is that they're driven by insecurity (aka careerism), which also reflects an immaturity in values, not so unexpected against the backdrop of the consumerist ideology whose measure of life "success" is the accumulation of stuff. In that scenario, lying is almost de rigueur. I was lucky to have a father with a different value system; the few times I lied to him were psychological torture for me.
Spot on! They have chosen to judge their success in life by how much wealth they have accumulated. Living life by this idea will inevitably lead to a sick society, where humanity is viewed through the lens of monetary value.
I think it's more basic than even that, I could never help myself, but got tired of always having to go to confession (Catholic) and having to make guesstaments of how many hundreds of times I had lied in the last few weeks; so I decided that since I couldn't help but lie, then I'd only lie if it didn't advance my self interests to do; I think my best lie was that I had built a green house in the basement; I couldn't believe that they had believed such an outrageous lie; oh well.
Ah yes, the absurdity of the Catholic confessional. Been there, done that . . . around 60 years ago.
Lol , Vin… remember your First Confession? 😂
How in hell were we supposed to recall all the “sins” we committed from birth on up to that point?
What I most recall is being endlessly badgered by nuns, especially the young ones right out of the convent, who seemed perennially confused about their roles in our lives -- and their own.
Right. And I don't believe what you just told us.
Correct.
My Grandfather put me in my place a few times too.
Your English is very good.
I think my writing's been complimented; if so, thanks. I guess I'm grateful that my linguistic brain has not yet gone to rubbish as the number of neurons blips downward.
I can tell you.......remarkable.
I am 75yrs old and when I came to France I was doing brilliantly with the language. Then (old childhood problems) I became partially deaf.
I can talk French but when someone answers me..................!
My favourite language is Italian because we learned Latin in school. Loved it.
Do you think Americans learned Latin? Helps so much with spelling but even now my spelling is going!!!!
Latin? Only Americans who go to Catholic high schools. I took 3 years of that "dead language" (Caesar, Cicero and Virgil), which lives on in so many other languages and contexts. But my spoken Italian sounds close to native because when I was a piccolo bambino, my bilingual nonna mi parlava Italiano un po'. So I always explain to other struggling speakers how my experience screams for early childhood language expansion, human brains being linguistic sponges in early childhood. Molti anni piu tardi, Il mio cervello ha ricordato il ritmo e il suono della lingua. Many years later, my brain remembered the rythm and sounds of the language as it came from nonna's voice. The amazing brain that the US educational atrocity short-changes in so many ways. What a country!
By the way, I've got you by a year, turned 76 this year. I'm so old, I remember when the dead sea was only sick.
Hi Jenny
My brother took Latin in high school, which at the time was a prerequisite for pre-med.
I’d love to take a class in Latin because of the Latin origins of the names of the trees and plants I love. I know many of them but would like to expand my knowledge.
Jenny, they get fired when they do! 🤬
Lying can make rational sense when one is under true existential threat. Normalized as an organization principal of a modern society, not so much.
Well said. But raising of course the issue of reaching some agreement on what constitutes a true existential threat. Israel would no doubt argue that the WWII Holocaust (which as we know included Romany, some Catholics, the disabled of any derivation and other non-Jewish people) projects into the future some sort of perennial residue of existential threat to Jews -- in the twisted Zionist mindset. Thus, as you state so well, becoming normalized as the organizational principle of Zionist Israeli society.
"the issue of reaching some agreement on what constitutes a true existential threat."
Thank you. My practical hope is to restore this as perpetually-active piece of open public discourse, not MSM-filtered, for all warfare. Then we, my whole country (US), and the world, can better deduce who is rational and who is crazy.
often one of the first steps in subjugating people(s). make them lie or consent to lies.
Well, it's in the Bible; the Lord commands it.
And that's all the reason they need.
The truth has been anti-semitic for a very long time.
The truth is anti-European colonialist, the truth is anti-Zionist, not anti-Semitic. Zionism and the state of Israel are anti-Semitic.
The lie George, is your misuse of the word anti-semitic. You play a definition game with us and the world and pretend to yourself that what you say is "true", when any rational, decent moral person knows it isn't. Caitlin is right, honest perception, especially of oneself is the key to growth. Without it, there is no growth, only stultification and neurosis. We see this in the entire state of Israel, on a neurotic road to self-destruction, as Germany once was in the 1940s.
He just needs to put "anti-semitic" in quotes, as Mohsin Shafi Zargar above does. I think his intent is the same.
Jamenta, I think you misread me. Yes it should have been I quotation marks but I wasn’t expecting the interpretation. Btw I find myself in virtual synchrony with both you and Caitlyn.
In my past work as a psychotherapist, I always encouraged clients to see the difference between "A" problem and "THE" problem. A client might have "A" presenting problem of anxiety but it was soon apparent the "THE" problem was an abusive marriage.
The same idea can be applied to politics as in continued US support for Israel's genocide is "A" problem but "THE" problem is the collapse and control of the US government by the Zionist lobby and Tel Aviv. Even if some kind of 'ceasefire' happened in Gaza, easing "A" problem of genocide, "THE" problem of Zionist ownership and control of the US government will lead to genocide in the West Bank, Lebanon and eventually war with Iran.
Always peel back "A" problem and see "THE" problem beneath.
Or is it the other way around. Israel is the puppet of the US. I’m more inclined to believe that Israel does what the US wants and not the other way around. Either way, it’s clear they are one and the same.
Just look to the obsequious. ball-licking reception of the Congress for Netanyahu's 'State of the Union' speech. Even all but one or two of the 100 who boycotted the speech had nonetheless voted for every bill sending more funds, weapons and intel for the Israel ZioNazi government. Look at the funding the Zionist lobby pumps into the American faux electoral system. No, our government has fallen. We are occupied by one of the most evil forces the world has ever seen.
This has been happening for a long time though. In 1967 Israel attacked a US naval vessel, with no repercussions. It is believed that the US and Israel had agreed on Israel sinking the vessel to give reason for the US to go to war with the Middle East. They embarrassingly failed in the attack, with many Americans surviving the attack and living to tell the true story. The same thing is believed to be true about 9/11. It’s funny that most of the hijackers were Saudi, yet the US did nothing to Saudi Arabia, AIPAC exists so the money laundering can make it back to the politicians who OK’d the weapons sales to Israel, who buys our weapons with our own tax money. It’s convoluted, but they are definitely on the same team and have been for a long time.
I disagree, Israel has been using the US to aid in its extermination of Arabs. Even 9/11, there are those that believe Israel was behind it. I have no proof of this only theories and evidence I've seen on 9-11 truther sites. The US is Isreal's ATM. The US government has been infiltrated by zionists nutcases, including basically Bidens entire cabinet. We do the bidding of Israel, the zionists get their Arab blood and the Neocons get there war machine money.
This talks a little about it. Not saying y’all are wrong by any means, because I don’t. I’m the truth myself.
https://youtu.be/RKyqh-6fOdI?si=y02J8zruGwI7uKE5
* I don’t know the truth myself. Sorry typo.
This has been happening in the US long before that.
Pretty well sums it up!
elites use both 'states' to foster this discussion and the uncertainty so there's always 'a reasonable doubt' that either one is the 'arch-villain' manipulating his 'unwitting' accomplice. while the public is trying to find out who's the 'evil masterbrain', they continue their schemes and horrors unabated (while the public wonders if the tail is wagging the dog, they're too mesmerized to see the entire dog has rabies). i think there's a lot of lobby-groups thankful for aipac for being the lightning-rod, a role they willingly perform. there seems lots of lists of aipac donations to politicians, but not so much of the other lobby-groups (maybe there are none?). there seems lots of support for designating aipac foreign agents and thus preventing their lobbying, but far less for abolishing the lobbying and donating system altogether.
Reminds me of a quote from Jungian James Hollis:
"That is why [Jungian] therapy labors greatly to find extra-ego referents such as somatic symptoms, behavioral patterns, and dreams which offer correctives to the blindness of the ego." #CreatingALife
How long are we going to allow this Zionist country to carry on being defended?
Everyone out in the streets and do your jobs ICC/ICJ
Jenny: The ICC and indeed every international organization is to some extent corrupted by the Behemoth of the " New World Order ". I am beginning to think the only thing that can tear down the whole rotten structure may be the BRICS alliance. The government here has done a good job of making the few of us who resist virtually powerless and the rest entirely incapable of rational thought. AS individuals all I can say is never comply and never submit. As long as we have our personal dignity we are not lost.
I agree BUT pressure is always good.
I have been commenting about BRICS for a long time now and find it fascinating. I am very hopeful. Just surprised not to see it being discussed more.
Of course it's not getting talked about. The last thing our corrupt officials want is to allow any publicity for it. They know that allowing it to be widely publicized will only hasten their own demise.
Correct.
There are mutterings that the BRICS countries are considering exiting from the UN. I cannot confirm this, conveying a suspicion passed on to me by a perceptive comrade.
The UN has worn itself out, with huge "help" from the US. So some other mechanism must be in store, and why not BRICS at this point. The key is not to have the US anywhere near the governance.
I have heard the same rumors. If true I believe it will be a tremendous step forward.
I find it is sometimes difficult to get people to even care about what is happening in the world. And it gets turned back on me too often. I am the angry one. I am the one causing stress by sending all those articles. I am a horrible person because I don't support Israel's "right" to defend itself. I am so grateful for articles such as Caitlins and also others that do see what is happening in Gaza and Ukraine. They help me to feel supported by others.
Yes. Caitlin does help you touch base with your own sanity and escape all the gas lighting taking place.
And watch the sheep cheer. MAGA types were all in favor of canceling freedom of speech and the press when the GWOT was in swing, then became civil libertarians when they figured out that the so-called "Patriot Act" could be used on then.
Now, yea, like the dog returneth to its vomit, they are cheering again. Dumb scrotes.
EDIT: to be fair, it ain't just MAGA. Watch how goodthink liberals cheered for the War On Iraq when it was popular, turned on it when it didn't perform as advertised, then became full-throated totalitarians, just as soon as Obama got elected.
MLK Martin Luther King three important things Truth Justice and Love
Ah, but we must support, God's chosen people. No matter what the moral costs.
If we want our own nation to give it's citizens free education and healthcare, we are dirty commies..
But if we want to bomb the world into oblivion, we are good capitalists.
No wonder things are so messed up.
Stupid Goyim, believing the Jewish god is real.
The Abrahamic God is the Mother of All Psy-ops.
Dark star, it’s GOOD to be Pagan!
I was talking about Israel with an acquaintance who accurately recites all the mainstream hasbara talking points.
He told me Hamas has rejected a ceasefire. When I told him I can show him that Israel has rejected at least 11 ceasefires he responded “I wouldn’t believe you even if you could show me.”
What do you do with someone who says that? Ultimately the truth is something very few people want to see….
Many people -- most? -- believe whatever they feel like believing.
"Israel [ United States Empire ] has continued its war on journalism ...", No!, on Muslim arabs, on Christian arabs, on arab who are not superstitious, on non-European brown people, and on all who do not accept jews are "God's Chosen People.*
"The more I live and learn the more convinced I am that everything ultimately comes down to seeing. ...", No!, "everything comes down to war or might, which is to say money.**
War or might, which is to say money, doesn't make right; war or might, which is to say money, makes what is.**
dennis hanna
*Israel is the United States.
The United States is Israel.
Israel:
God’s Chosen People
United States:
American Exceptionalism*
The Earth’s Last Best Hope**
The Indispensable Nation***
The One Indispensable Nation****
A settler-Colonial land.
The Promised Land,
Manifest Destiny is our stand.
A land with no people for
A people with no land.
Indian Territory(ies)
Palestinian Territory(ies)
Occupied Palestinian Territory(ies)
Illegally Occupied Palestinian Territory(ies)
Indian Reservations
Palestinian Reservations
“Area C”, Palestine?, you pray.
“Bantustans,” you say.
Apartheid is the only way.
No!, genocide is here to stay.
Why? Because election year or not Israel's supporters pay United States government representatives to obey.
Wait, all social and economic leaders in America and the "Western World" take Israel's supporters money, it's the only winning game to play.
United States Indians
Israel, PalestinIndians
Different names for the same thing, ethnic cleansing and Genocide.
The truth you can’t hide.
One and the same.
The Principle of Identity,
A difference only in name.
*The first reference to the concept by name, and possibly its origin, was by French writer Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835/1840 work, Democracy in America:
“The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people.”
**President Abraham Lincoln
Annual Message to Congress -- Concluding Remarks
Washington, D.C.
December 1, 1862
One month before signing the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln sent a long message to Congress which was largely routine, but also proposed controversial measures such as voluntary colonization of slaves and compensated emancipation.
“... We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. ...”
***It is the threat of the use of force [against Iraq] and our line-up there that is going to put force behind the diplomacy. But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us.
Madeleinee K. Albright,
U.S. Secretary of State (1997–2001).
Stated on NBC's Today Show (February 19, 1998)
****"The United States is and will remain the one indispensable nation in the world. Now, sustaining our leadership, keeping America strong and secure means we have to use our power wisely," Obama said in his address to the American Legion in North Carolina. August 27, 2014 ( not the first or last time he uttered these words )
Please note, President Obama
clarified and specified “... the one indispensable nation ...”
The President, thus, closed the rhetorical door on any other nation being “indispensable.”
In meaning and use, “the,” definite article, acts as a function word to indicate that a following noun or noun equivalent is a “unique” or “a” particular member” of its class; i.e. “the” President as compared to “a” president.
President Obama, of course, knew this being “ivory league” educated at Columbia University (B.A.) and Harvard University (J.D.)
** “War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides,
460 B.C.E. – 400 B.C.E.
“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides is generally regarded as one of the first true historians. Like his predecessor Herodotus, known as "the father of history", Thucydides places a high value on eyewitness testimony and writes about events in which he probably took part.
He also assiduously consulted written documents and interviewed participants about the events that he recorded.
Unlike Herodotus, whose stories often teach that a hubrisinvites the wrath of the gods, Thucydides does not acknowledge divine intervention in human affairs.
"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only ask them to think”
Socrates, 470 - 399 B.C.E.
Excellent Dennis, just excellent.
WOW !!! What a coincidence, because someone apparently just tried to kill me this morning, by manipulating one of my medical devices while I was on an early morning walk. Apparently, because of a comment that I made on your blog about 12 hours ago. Most likely the comment that sent someone on a murderous warpath was the hateful statement that they made about Palestinians being rapists, and murderers; they might have added thieves as well. I checked them and chided them for their hate speech. So; so very right on, Caitlin, and may I also add concerning the explosive devices that Israel detonated the day, they; these people here, where I live in Chicago, where Netanyahu's X , and his daughter lives, who I've met, while she was dating my son; apparently tried to set me up with one of those explosive devices; for criticising Jewish hate speech of Palestinians, and; may I add that hardly a day goes by here in Chicago that someone at least tries, if not succeeds in killing a Palestinian, and the media, not even the local media reports on it. Almost understandable though as Benjamin's X heads the local public broadcasting network here in the city, and whenever she gets upset with me, she has one of the other stations here in town run some hate speech on me, in the hopes that some unhinged group will extract revenge. Happened in Indianapolis with Trump's hate speech towards Chinese people; the 3 teenagers killed a Korean instead. Mental health? Everyone in my family except for me and the one that they killed in a failed attempt to get to me, they hypnotized to make all efforts to end my life for them. Crimes against humanity, and my sister is still going around calling people Chink Lovers, and she doesn't give a damn about politics and never did, but that's the shit they do, and no doubt but that is what they did to the IDF, some people here wear those IDF hats, especially right down the hall from me. Beware the hateful heart Caitlin, the Zionist agenda has no boundaries.
Nazis
"Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth."
— Ryan Messano in "THE ARCHITECT - PART TWO" - https://rumble.com/v4gg0al-the-architect.html?start=523
The Most Sadistic and Indiscriminate Terror Attack in World History - https://api.bitchute.com/video/RiKngIsKpTpL/
Seeing yes, and listening too.
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